On April 23, a man was found shot dead near Fair Park. The suspect arrested for pulling the trigger is also accused of a separate murder that happened weeks earlier.
DALLAS — Two days after a man was shot and killed near Fair Park, a suspect was arrested and charged with his murder — along with another murder charge.
Dallas police said 30-year-old Garrett Hudgens was arrested on April 25 and charged with two counts of murder.
Police were called about the first murder at about 6:30 a.m. on April 4 in the 1200 block of North Cockrell Hill Road. Investigators said they found 51-year-old Jimmie Walker had been shot at the location, where he later died.
The second killing took place in the morning of April 23 in the 3700 block of Parry Avenue, DPD said. Police found Percy Hawthorn Jr., 71, shot dead at the scene, officials said. It happened in the same block as the Fair Park DART Station and the Parry Avenue entrance to Fair Park, police said.
An arrest affidavit obtained by WFAA stated that shell casings recovered from both murders matched each other, and detectives submitted an area dump search warrant to the cell phone providers for the area of the murders during each time frame. AT&T provided a return, and it was determined that 22 devices were common between both locations, and of those, a phone number linked to Hudgens through CashApp was discovered. Hudgens also had access to a 2012 black Chevrolet Tahoe, which was seen on flock cameras near both scenes around the times the murders occurred, according to the affidavit.
Hudgens’ cell phone location data also corresponded with the flock camera scans prior to each murder, according to the affidavit.
Hudgens was booked into Dallas County Jail on April 25 on two counts of murder. His bond totaled $2 million, jail records showed.
A Dallas County grand jury indicted Hudgens for the April 23 shooting in June, records said.